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Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, 2002 [United States] (ICPSR 4359)

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary:

This collection provides nationally representative data on
persons held prior to trial and on convicted offenders serving
sentences in local jails or awaiting transfer to state prisons. Data
cover individual characteristics of jail inmates, current offenses,
sentences and time served, criminal histories, jail activities,
conditions and programs, prior drug and alcohol use and treatment, and
health care services provided while in jail. Part 1, Numeric Data,
contains numeric data for all questions in the survey, while Part 2,
Alphanumeric Data, consists of non-numeric answers to the "Other,
Specify" selection available for some of the questions.

This collection provides nationally representative data on
persons held prior to trial and on convicted offenders serving
sentences in local jails or awaiting transfer to state prisons. Data
cover individual characteristics of jail inmates, current offenses,
sentences and time served, criminal histories, jail activities,
conditions and programs, prior drug and alcohol use and treatment, and
health care services provided while in jail. Part 1, Numeric Data,
contains numeric data for all questions in the survey, while Part 2,
Alphanumeric Data, consists of non-numeric answers to the "Other,
Specify" selection available for some of the questions.

Guidelines for Applying for Restricted Data

Before you begin an application you will need the following information to complete the form

General Requirements:

appointment at research institution; appointment must be under the jurisdiction of the receiving institution

degree requirements (possibly doctorate)

Must be submitted:

project description

IRB approval

approved security plan

roster of research and IT staff who can access or view the data or computer where data are hosted.

confidentiality pledges for all people on roster

Some require:

CV's

Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Any public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public.
Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, 2002 [United States]. ICPSR04359-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-08-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04359.v2

Universe:
Male, female and juvenile inmates held in institutions
listed in the 1999 Census of Jails plus jails opened after the census
but before the spring of 2002.

Data Type(s):
survey data

Methodology

Sample:
The sample for the 2002 survey was selected from a
universe of 3,365 jails housing 529,084 adult males, 67,464 adult
females and 9,449 juvenile (both male and female) inmates. The sample
design was a stratified two-stage selection, in which jails were
selected in the first stages and inmates to be interviewed were
selected in the second stage. In the first sampling stage, using a
target jail sample size of 460, six separate strata were formed based
on the size of the male, female, and juveniles populations in each
jail.

Weight:
Through the application of weights and a series of
adjustments, the data for the 2002 survey were weighted so that the
sum of all sample weights would equal 631,241 (which was the total
number of inmates in local jails on June 30, 2001, estimated by the
2001 Annual Survey of Jails). The weighting procedure consisted of a
base weight for each inmate and four adjustment factors that produced
the final weight for the survey.

Mode of Data Collection:
computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI)

Response Rates:
84 percent

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 2006-03-17

Version History:

2012-08-22 A Restricted Data Use Agreement form was added to the documentation files that can be downloaded from the study home page.

2006-11-21 The questionnaire supplied by the
Principal Investigator has been appended to the codebook.